Two sermons preached by Master Henry SmithTvvo sermons preached by Master Henry Smith

THE CALLING OF JONAH.

THE CALLING OF IONAH.

JONAH 1. 1. 2. 1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying; 2 Arise and go to Nineveh, that great City, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me.

IONAH 1. 1. 2. 1 The word of the Lord came to Ionah the son of Amittai, saying; 2 Arise and goto Niniuie, that great Citie, and cry against it, for their wickednesse is come vp before me.

You have heard the sweet song of old father Simeon, like the pleasant song a sweet bird before her death, setting forth the joy of the righteous that embrace Christ Jesus. Before Christ Jesus vouchsafed to come to us, we would not come unto him, but in all our doings we wrought our condemnation, and through the innumerable heaps of our iniquities, laboured to drive him without all hope of mercy from us. So we continued like flies, which flutter about the candle till they have consumed themselves. When we had done as much as in us lay to drive him away from us, then he saved us, and recompensed good for evil unto us. So that if God had loved us no more then we loved our selves, we might have perished in our sins, and our blood should have been upon our own heads. If Christ be the light of the Gentiles, let us embrace him, and every one walk as becometh the children of light: but many do shut their eyes against it, lest they should see, and not only many smother their own light, but the Sun saith unto the Moon, shine not; and the Moon ⟨image 49⟩